{"id":167802,"date":"2015-11-18T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=167802"},"modified":"2015-11-18T14:51:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:51:12","slug":"frenchman-claude-leroy-quits-as-congo-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=167802","title":{"rendered":"Frenchman Claude LeRoy quits as Congo coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Claude LeRoy resigned as coach of Congo Brazzaville just hours after securing a place for the country in the final of qualifying for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 67-year-old Frenchman told officials directly after the Red Devils beat Ethiopia 2-1 in Brazzaville on Tuesday for a 6-4 overall victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAfter two formidable years , I&#8217;ve decided to embark on another adventure,&#8221; he told local reporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is now speculation he could take over as Cameroon boss again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Volker Finke was sacked as coach of the Indomitable Lions before the recent World Cup qualifiers, when they beat Niger 3-0 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alexandre Belinga is currently the interim coach of Cameroon while the football association recruits a replacement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LeRoy has coached at a record eight African Nations Cup finals, including winning the tournament with Cameroon in 1988.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He only once failed to reach the quarter-finals of the Nations Cup and took Congo to the last eight place at the tournament in Equatorial Guinea in January.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude LeRoy resigned as coach of Congo Brazzaville just hours after securing a place for the country in the final of qualifying for the World Cup. The 67-year-old Frenchman told officials directly after the Red Devils beat Ethiopia 2-1 in Brazzaville on Tuesday for a 6-4 overall victory. \u201cAfter two formidable years , I&#8217;ve decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":56677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-167802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}